All swimming smiles!

So happy that RJ had a good lesson tonight without tears!  Whew!  Morgan is learning how to swim so well!  In the second picture she is learning how to do freestyle with side breathing.  (Side breathing = hard stuff!)  RJ is attempting bubbles and Morgan is starting to wear her goggles more without complaining!  Yea!!  Now I need to start swimming more laps!  Summer is coming, yippee!

 

 

Phanatic's Birthday!

BASEBALL!

Morgan was so excited to join Bob and I today for the Phanatic's birthday!  We got some fun pictures outside the park, enjoyed a yummy lunch at McFadden's and then headed into the park.  She got the give-a-way of a Phanatic Bank!  Fun!!  (We also got one for RJ too... or we would have had a sad kiddo!) Morgan did pretty well in the park... she tried cotton candy again and this time ate all of it without sharing even a mouse bite!!  Fun times at the ballpark! 

On a side note... while we were at the game, RJ got to spend some quality time with Grandmom and Granddad.  They took him to a train store where he got to see some train things.  It sounded like he had a fun time... except he didn't nap.   

Morgan dancing to the band with a friend she made!

Phanatic Cake on the big screen!

Long but fun day~

Appointments

Frustration = this Momma.

This is a long 'ranting' blog... so bare with me or don't read on!!  Warning has been given!
Today the kiddos and I had a busy morning.  Daddy went out early this morning to help a friend build a fence.  Wish I had him with us today, but he is helping out a friend.  Hopefully the help will be repaid at some point...


The morning started with being woken up early to Bob's alarm.  Today was the only day I could sleep in and I heard the blaring alarm at 6:20.  *sigh*  I tried to go back to sleep, but it didn't work so a little after 7 I got up.  The kiddos woke up around 7:30.  We needed to leave around 8:20 to go off to our first appointment, varnish for RJ's tooth at the dentist.

Well... I found out he has a cavity between and on the back side of his top two front teeth.  First, how do you get a cavity 'between' your teeth?  I thought a cavity was on a tooth?  Whatever.  RJ did pretty well with letting the hygienist put this goey yucky looking stuff on his teeth.  He didn't enjoy it... but he sat still and didn't cry or seal his lips shut.  She said this varnish will hopefully help the cavity stay small.  Guess it is back to Daddy or me brushing his teeth nightly.

For my family... do you remember these faces?  (Megan, you have to remember at least two of these people's names!!)  These are the three I remember from when WE went as kids!!

Then we were off to my eye doctor appointment.  From Lansdale to King of Prussia, there we went!  Long story short... I was supposed to have my eye doctor appointment yesterday, but they called Thursday afternoon trying to move my appointment up from 4pm to 11am.  No.can.do.  That is what I told them! (p.s. they have done this before and I have complied with their request.  Not this time!)  So I had to have my appointment rescheduled to today "any time" is fine they stated.  Wonderful.  I said 10?  They said we will pencil you in at 10:30 but if you get here sooner we can take you sooner.  They are always pretty quick and take you almost immediately so I half-heartedly agreed.  But today = kiddos with me. 

We were a little earlier than 10 so we swung by Nana's old house.  Pretty much looked the same as I remembered it...  Those bushes just love.to.grow!  Below is a picture taken today!  I felt a little devilish... but hey I like remembering fond memories!

Got to the eye doctor and got some measurements done and was shuffled into different rooms.  First they put me in the girl eye doctor's office (as if I was just an easy patient - ha!) then they asked me to head back to the Surgeon's office and he would take a look at me and talk with me.  Awesome.  Let me share that the ONLY time someone usually meets him is five minutes before your surgery... before that you deal with the nice nurses and the two regular eye doctors he has on staff.  Well... here I was again getting 'special' treatment because my eyes did not cooperate, or he messed up... hmmm... 

     

I love being one of the 5% that might not have perfect vision.  I am not blaming anyone, although a certain person I love convinced me it was the BEST thing to do... but big bummer when things don't go as expected.  So... instead of meeting with said (pictured) girl doctor, I meet with pictured male doctor/surgeon.  He did a quick few measurements of my eyes and says... (or something along the lines...) "Well, it looks like we should probably do another procedure.  At this point I would have expected your eyes to have adjusted to closer to 20/20 vision."  He went on saying more things that kind-of went in and out of focus (it didn't help to have Morgan and RJ sitting there... although now I know that HE has a boy who is 5 and a girl who is 3, but besides the point).  I pretty much said that I was disappointed that I would turn out to be one of the low percentage that has trouble... he went on with more medical language, again explaining how I went from nearsightedness to farsightedness and explained again where the light is hitting my eye.  He also reminded me how much better my eyes really were then before.  I WANTED to say, yes... but my brother who has a minimal prescription wears his glasses all the time so it doesn't really matter what the prescription is - it is still not perfect vision which means glasses/contacts. I refrained and kept that thought to myself.

I shared with the surgeon that I really did not want to have another surgery done because summer was coming... and I have been diligent in working out... which means... sweat in eyes, suntan lotion in eyes, and sun, all.the.time.  I also said that I wasn't sure I wanted to go through the surgery with the recovery time and the 2 months of illness I went through due to the steroid eye drops.  He basically told me A. It was absolutely ridiculous to say I wouldn't get another surgery and B. The longer I want to wait for a second surgery the better it would be for my eyes.  My eyes could still change a little bit more...  THEN what made me almost fall off of my chair was... he said he had the same surgery I had about five years ago and one of his eyes did not turn out perfect or better than 20/20.  He said when both his eyes are open he see great because his perfect eye compensates for his other eye... not what I WANT TO HEAR! 

Needless to say... he gave me some information about what I should do for the time being before I get my next procedure... not if I do, but when I do...  Then I was taken to the girl Dr.'s office to talk about my exact vision scores and to provide me with information on where to buy 'cheap' glasses including frames and lenses.  Wonderful, great, blah. 

So... overall I was not happy with the outcome, I was hoping and praying that maybe my eyes would have miraculously made a big jump in correction (even though in my day to day seeing I knew they hadn't).  So... I guess come September I will go back to see where we go from here.  Wonderful, now I will wear glasses.  I haven't worn glasses as my primary vision treatment since middle school!  Now... I don't have to wear them all the time, but he suggests when I think I need them I should wear them.  I am feeling disappointed.  and a little bit depressed... best thing for that?  Food... I don't need to say what I did all afternoon!

Out to eat

Tonight Daddy decided he did not feel like cooking tonight so we went out to a local restaurant that has a SUPPER huge menu!  Everything from a full page of appetizers to sandwiches to full meals complete with soup or salad!  Of course RJ wanted buttered noodles for supper... Morgan got cheese raviolis.  We as a family got an appetizer of fried calamari.  Morgan actually tried it and liked it!  I'm pretty impressed with her!!  It is hard to see, but the one picture is of her holding a little octopus in her hand!!  RJ always reminds me of a little bird sucking in his worm, I mean spaghetti when eating his noodles.   

 

 

RJ's April Artwork

Fun artwork by RJ!!  I love that he is trying to complete all the activities that are requested of him!

Wordless Wednesday - 17

Loving on each other while watching a Jesus movie 

about a dog who is 'lost' spiritually until he meets Jesus...

Just singing in the rain...

RJ insisted on going outside. I geared him up and out he went... for a good 20 minutes until he said he was wet Really?

Morgan's accident.

SHE IS FINE!! I am not sharing anything Life Threatening

I didn't write about her accident a few weeks ago, because I figured I would cover it when the 'situation' was complete. It is complete.

...back tracking... Three or so weeks ago Morgan was in the basement playing around in my workout area. I warned her to be careful and she said, "I will Momma." No sooner did she say that she started crying and screaming. What did she do? She dropped an eight pound dumbbell on her middle finger, smack on the nail. I am envisioning her middle finger getting sandwiched onto the ground. She cried a lot and I immediately looked at her finger and after making sure she didn't break it told her, your nail will probably fall off. She didn't really believe me and I wasn't sure I was telling the truth... I was just guessing... maybe so I wouldn't be shocked myself if something like that happened...

...fast forward to the last few days... her nail has started coming off... actually for the last week or so. Tonight her nail was literally only hanging on my one little piece of skin. I have been playing with her nail trying to loosen it a little bit at a time, but she quickly grows tired of that 'game.' Tonight I told her not to look, watch the Flyers... and she would look at her finger and I would tell her to look away. It became a game to her... with lots of giggles. I secured the edge of her finger with my thumb nail where the one little attachment to her finger was and in one quick yank pulled off her nail. Morgan was still giggling and when I showed her the nail now held between my fingers she giggled some more and said that it tickled! She was so excited she made several phone calls to share the 'good' news! My good news is that her new nail has already started to grow! Whew! I am very glad another nail is growing, that would have been my worst fear... learning how to paint a finger because the nail never grew back...

Brave little girl that learned her lesson!

Morgan said...

As we were playing restaurant the following conversation took place...

Morgan said, "I ate the joke, even though it doesn't taste very good."
I said, "What?"
She repeated herself, "I ate the yellow joke."
"What?" I asked again.
"Momma, you know. The joke from the egg" Morgan answered.
Momma's response... "Oh.... the yoke."

Too sweet... couldn't not write that down immediately to save the memory!!

Wordless Wednesday - 16

Spontaneous Baseball game... LOVE!

All water smiles!

Morgan is learning freestyle! Look at the straight arms!! yipee!

Now we need to get the side breathing down!

RJ was all smiles tonight! Love it!!